inordinate amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinordinateandamount
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inordinate
adjective
uk/ɪˈnɔː.dɪ.nət/us/ˌɪnˈɔːr.dən.ət/
much more than usual ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition ofinordinateandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Adolescents spend aninordinateamountof time with friends.
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This is aninordinateamountof money for a soft-covered publication of this size lacking colour illustrations, and it will undoubtedly affect its distribution.
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Legislators devoted aninordinateamountof time debating this section of the bill.
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Translation was not only difficult and prone to errors, but it took aninordinateamountof time.
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Participants were also told that they could work at their own pace, but that they should not spend aninordinateamountof time on one item.
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Longer runs require aninordinateamountof time without yielding much more information.
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We have spent aninordinateamountof time encouraging experts and authorities to construct huge structures of classification, from trees of life to trees of knowledge.
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There has been aninordinateamountof discussion concerning the terminology and phylogeny of the various sub-cellular organelles illustrated, but a marked reticence in defining function.
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For such cases, aninordinateamountof space seems to be devoted to phonetics, space that might have been better dedicated to syllable theory, for example.
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This involved aninordinateamountof joint work.
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Over the past few years, people with haemophilia have been forced to endure aninordinateamountof worry and suffering.
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In the past, there has been aninordinateamountof duplication and unnecessary bureaucracy, and money has been wasted.
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Unless this can be done, reforms as far-reaching as those which we have been discussing would take up aninordinateamountof parliamentary time.
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We appear to be spending aninordinateamountpromoting arms sales.
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Theinordinateamountof time spent by officers and people in our schools on that procedure is horrendous.
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To do so would take aninordinateamountof time.
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This information is not readily available and to obtain it would entail aninordinateamountof work.
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All those tasks must be done properly if cases are to go to court, but they take aninordinateamountof time.
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There seems to be aninordinateamountof chitchat and gossip about it.
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